Experimental demonstration of fractional orbital angular momentum entanglement of two photons

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Oemrawsingh, SSR [1 ]
Ma, X [1 ]
Voigt, D [1 ]
Aiello, A [1 ]
Eliel, ER [1 ]
't Hooft, GW [1 ]
Woerdman, JP [1 ]
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[1] Leiden Univ, Huygens Lab, NL-2300 RA Leiden, Netherlands
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10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.240501
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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The singular nature of a noninteger spiral phase plate allows easy manipulation of spatial degrees of freedom of photon states. Using two such devices, we have observed very high-dimensional spatial entanglement of twin photons generated by spontaneous parametric down-conversion.
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